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| Glasgow police cordon off part of downtown as witness reports incident & ‘man covered in blood’ days after stabbing | Glasgow police cordon off part of downtown as witness reports incident & ‘man covered in blood’ days after stabbing |
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| Police have cordoned off a central street in Glasgow, Scotland amid reports of a stabbing attack. Pictures from the scene show police tending to a person lying in blood on the pavement. | Police have cordoned off a central street in Glasgow, Scotland amid reports of a stabbing attack. Pictures from the scene show police tending to a person lying in blood on the pavement. |
| There was “loads of screaming and guy is on the ground with blood all over him,” a witness told the Glasgow Times shortly after the incident. He said that the wounded man likely came out of the Premier Inn Hotel. | There was “loads of screaming and guy is on the ground with blood all over him,” a witness told the Glasgow Times shortly after the incident. He said that the wounded man likely came out of the Premier Inn Hotel. |
| “The guy’s shoes and a load of blood [are] still on the pavement,” the newspaper quoted a witness. Several police cars and ambulances were rushed at the scene after they received a call about the incident after 12 pm local time. | |
| Police called the attack “a targeted assault” and said that there is no threat to the public anymore. | |
| The Premier Inn Hotel is located on Argyle Street inside one of the city’s main shopping districts. It is not far from Park Inn Hotel, where six people, including a police officer, were wounded in a stabbing spree on Friday. The suspect in that incident, an asylum-seeker from Sudan, was shot by a police on site.Last week, a knifeman killed three people in a park in the town of Reading in southern England. The suspect, who local media identified as a man from Libya, is in police custody. Some reports said that he was an asylum-seeker as well. The attack in Reading is being investigated as terror-related. | |
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